The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it..

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don….

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, th….

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it..

Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service..

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a bu….

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredi….

The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher..

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such….

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash..

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody..

Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're workin….

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities..

Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving..

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc.….

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time..

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!.

You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all p….

I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I sp….

I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture lo….

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it..